The Republicans are back, so what happens now?

After the midterm elections, the experiment begins: Whether the pursuit of political power benefits the voters, and whether opinions are a substitute for facts

I had wondered during the eight years of Bush where the rage was when he vacationed his way into 9/11, let bin Laden escape to start a pointless war in Iraq, squandered Clinton’s budget surplus, let New Orleans rot, rolled back regulation so that banks could turn mortgages into a lottery, then had to pay up out of our pockets by enacting TARP (that’s right, TARP was a Bush creation - one of the few that worked).

Now the rage has erupted, against the people who tried to fix the damage and could not do so fast enough. All the Republicans want is control. We see how well that worked last time.

OK, here’s a second chance: You are accountable, and that’s a fact, not an opinion.